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Tarot, a welcoming tool of spiritual enlightenment

Martha Rand
3 min readJan 26, 2021

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Turn the cards over one by one, or all at once, and you have a rorschach ready made for your projection. Clients come for predictions. They wish to know the future — money, love, health. It’s entertainment, too, as per the longstanding blue laws in many states. Tarot reading tells a story using beautifully illustrated cards filled with symbolism and arcane knowledge tied to archetypal explorations. What archetype are you? Today! Will you get that same card tomorrow?

I’ve been reading at my booth DIvinations & Bodycraft, 11 Mystic Way, NYRenFaire, Tuxedo NY for 40+ years. Don’t send maiil there, it’s not really an address where I can receive delivery. People sit down for reading for so many reasons.

Cards, crystals and stones on my table at NYRenFaire

This past weekend, I spent a day at Staarcon, virtually, a tarot conference. I only stayed for one day. It was Sunday. It was fun! What would you imagine wouold happen Sunday morning at a tarot conference? Well,this was the first preesntation on the schedule: A pairing of Bible passages with Tarot cards from the Rider-Waite-Smith deck by Kim Danbert, tarologist and spiritual educator. Kim did a magnificent job. I especially loved her pairing of the Ace of Cups with the words of Psalm 23, “my cup runneth over.”

It’s not typical for me to go to Sunday sermon. I’ve been to a few Quaker meetings and some Unitarian…

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Martha Rand
Martha Rand

Written by Martha Rand

Tarot reader, astrologer, writer, artist, clinical social worker, school social worker, creative arts therapist, doctoral student in educational technology.

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